Senior Security Operations Engineer – Remote-First SOC Leader

Canonical Ltd.; København; Remote; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed remote-first work model

Learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities for company meet‑

Travel upgrades for events

Job summary

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior or Staff engineer for its Security Operations team. You will lead operational and engineering efforts to design, build, and run a world-class SOC while mentoring colleagues and contributing to open source security.

The role covers security engineering, software tooling, and site reliability practices. Senior candidates with security or engineering backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including less-experienced individuals with strong credentials.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional cybersecurity experience, preferably working or leading a SOC.
• Professional engineering experience.
• Ambition to contribute to open source security.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Knowledge of Git, GitOps, IaC and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and engineering leadership.
• Implement and evolve Canonical’s Security Operations Center.
• Design and develop security software and platforms.
• Monitor for, identify, respond to, and remediate security incidents.
• Assess and improve Canonical’s security controls.
• Mentor early-career Security Operations engineers.
• Plan and deliver work within Canonical's agile engineering framework.
• Contribute to open source security.
• Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations.

Skills

Operational leadership

Threat hunting

Incident response

Security engineering

Open source contributions

Python

Bash

Mentoring

SRE practices

Team collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Git

GitOps

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior or Staff engineer for its Security Operations team. You will lead operational and engineering efforts to design, build, and run a world-class SOC while mentoring colleagues and contributing to open source security.

The role covers security engineering, software tooling, and site reliability practices. Senior candidates with security or engineering backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including less-experienced individuals with strong credentials.